LA group home resident dies in police custody

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the death of a 40-year-old man who died while in police custody.

The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/YWnBOs) that staff at a group home called officers around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday because a resident was banging his head against a brick wall and hurting himself.

Police spokesman Richard French tells the newspaper that officers handcuffed the man to prevent him from continuing to harm himself and took him to a local hospital, where he died.

French says officers did not use force on the man and he died from self-inflicted injuries.